A good friend's son is the head brewmaster at the new Jamestown Brewing located in Jamestown NY. I am trying to find out any and all information about the brewery as well as what breweriana if any is available for the pre-prohibition brewery of the same name. The only thing that I have found so far is on the oldbreweries.com website and it is not very detailed. It also does not discuss post-prohibition and my friend's son was pretty sure they re-opened after repeal for a short time.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Information on Jamestown Brewing, Jamestown NY.
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Re: Information on Jamestown Brewing, Jamestown NY.
@Pokey You know I like a good brewery history challenge......I'll have something for you later but here is a tease....
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I have an embossed bottle from that brewery if he is interested. Sadly, the crown on it is a generic cap.
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@Pokey Ok Here is what I was able to gather from newspapers.com Looks like there was one earlier reference to the "Jamestown Brewery" related to a murder trial but believe this was just likely named after the city. The real first mention is in the Jan 15 1897 article. A few other articles included events that occurred leading up to Prohibition. Looks like they bottled soda called Thirst during Prohibition and then eventually sold over to a milk bottling company. Best I could do on such a short period of time.
Hope it helps.
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WOW!! That is a lot of material in a very short time!
Thank you!
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I enjoy doing brewery histories as many know and am listed as a BCCA historian. There are some good histories I wrote that can be found here:
https://www.bcca.com/beer-breweries-and-breweriana/
BTW Thanks goes to @idigrust Danny for posting them there.
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Have not been to this brewery as it is in the area. Southern Tier is in the next town (Lakewood) and a new brewery opened up in Mayville this summer. Looks like a nice Fall day trip.
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